Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-10-07 | Page 10 | Utah Land Thrown out of Withdrawals

UTAH LAND THROWN OUT OF WITHDRAWALS Throe quarters of a million acres of public lands were restored to entry last month. These i-estoratlons were based upon recommendations made by the United States geological, survey as a result of its classification work in the western states. The only area withdrawn was one of 235 acres In California, temporarlly reserved from entry because of its possibilities possi-bilities for developing water power. The largest restoration was in Montana, where 525,747 acres wero restored to public entry en-try as the result of coal classifications completed. In addition to this, restorations restora-tions of coal land involving 211,742 acres wero made in Colorado, Now Mexico, North Dakota. Utah and "Wyoming. In California, Idaho, Oregon and "Washington. "Washing-ton. 7S24 acres heretofore reserved for water power were restored, examination having Indicated that they are not valuable val-uable for the purpose for which they were withdrawn. About S3. 600.000 acres of land have now been classified as to their coal content; 61,484,032 acres have been classified as ndncoal land and less than 20,000,000 acres have been classified as coal land and values val-ues of over $760,000,000 placed upon them in accordance with tho provisions of the coal-land law and the department regulations. regu-lations. The remainder has been restored re-stored without, classification. The survey has also classified as non-irrigable non-irrigable and designated for entry under the enlarged homestead acts more than 200,000.000 acres of land in those western west-ern states to which the 320-acre homestead home-stead principle has been extended by congress.